Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Stars and Stripes Forever

Stars and Stripes Forever edit

A performance of the patriotic American march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by the United States Marine Band. It is widely considered to be the magnum opus of composer John Philip Sousa. By act of Congress, it is the National March of the United States of America.

Pretty noteworthy composition, especially in the United States. (Boy, I'm on a patriotic roll here...). I'm aware of the other Edison Records recording, but we have here a modern recording as opposed to a historical recording. Also, a problematic issue here is that I cannot find the date of the recording. Do we go instead with the date of that the piece was composed?

Nominate and support. haha169 (talk) 05:01, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I believe that the U.S. Military Bands tend to cycle things off their webpages after a couple years, so c. 2009 would be a decent estimate of the performance date. For the date it's listed under in the big FS-list, that'd be date of composition, because it's meant to try and roughly classify by era, while not imposing a Western classification scheme on anything non-Western.

By the way, this does mean we want to keep on top of the military stuff; once it's gone, it's going to be very hard to get. A Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:16, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. I'm trying to get my hands on the Marine Band's performance of Pines of Rome...can't find it anywhere. These things cycle, and once they're gone...they're gone. --haha169 (talk) 02:27, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support up to the precision that one should expect from a military band --Guerillero | My Talk 05:38, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Was holding off as it does simplify things if I can promote, but, what the hell, Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:27, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promote Sfan00 IMG (talk) 23:15, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]